Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China

NBER Working Paper No. 25365Issued in December 2018, Revised in August 2019

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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China through Grant No. 71203188, "Impacts of Hukou, Education and Wage on Job Search and Match: Evidence Based on Online Job Board Microdata". We thank Austin Jones for careful research assistance. This paper benefited from many helpful comments from seminar and conference participants. Special thanks are due to Eliza Forsythe, Lisa Kahn, Marianna Kudlyak, Michael A. Kuhn, Ioana Marinescu and Benjamin Villena-Roldan. The authors have no competing interests in this research. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.